Designer, Visual Design Team

West Monroe is looking for a Designer to join our Visual Design team. The person filling this position will work closely with members of our Marketing team, Communications team, and consulting practices to drive visual consistency in our internal and external messaging via excellent design. Specifically, this position will partner with Marketing to bring their messages to market, create tools and templates to enable resources at all levels to communicate messages to their clients better, work with corporate communications teams on internal campaigns and programs, and partner with consultants to deliver well-designed and branded presentations and deliverables to our high-profile clients.

We are looking for someone who can bring passion and creative ideas to the table and partner strategically with other team members to help achieve goals. This designer will have an opportunity to join a highly effective in-house design team, flex their design skills across many mediums, and explore different facets of design within a strong, core West Monroe brand.

Responsibilities: 

• Act as a key member of the Visual Design team, stewarding and enforcing West Monroe’s brand guidelines across print, digital, social, and web-based channels via excellent design and monitoring these channels
• Create highly usable/reusable, on-brand, and creative visuals
• Create assets using branded design templates
• Work with consultants across the firm to design PowerPoint deliverables—developing approach graphics, partnering with marketing to shape messaging and storyline, creating visually appealing, branded templates, and ensuring design quality in all final products
• Perform Quality Assurance checks for assets going into the market
• Assist in the visual design and execution of internal strategic programs and rollouts
• Perform design quality assurance on proposals, marketing collateral, and deliverables (PowerPoint, Word, Adobe Creative Suite – Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign)
• Add to the West Monroe library of visual design tools, templates, and examples
• Act as a brand steward, championing the importance of good visual design and how it can impact our win ratio or delivery capabilities

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Marketing/Advertising, or a related field of study
• 1-3 years of experience in visual design, cross-team collaboration
• Demonstrated ability to leverage visual design principles around typography, color, and iconography (please include the link to or file containing your design portfolio)
• Experience in representing complex data visually, creating infographics
• Fluent in:
  • Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign)
  • Microsoft Office (particularly PowerPoint— this is a must, and we work often in this application)
  • Figma or video editing and motion graphics software is a plus but not required
• Experience working under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment, taking the initiative to plan and execute, and being able to work both independently and within a team environment
• Very organized and able to manage time and relationships, schedule multiple meetings, and stay on top of multiple communications, with strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and creative experience
• Ability to pivot between different types of design tasks throughout the day